5 Reasons Why True Detective Is Going To Be Cancelled

If True Detective Season 3 was commissioned today, by all estimations the earliest it would be on our screens is 2018, and that's if you want something as sloppy as Season 2.

You see, one of the biggest suggestions True Detective Season 2 would live up to the first was that it came out over a year-and-a-half after the first season, suggesting Nic Pizzolatto had been given the time to develop a whole new sprawling story. However, while he had six months more than most seasonal television, it still fell far from the mark.

And that's because Season 1 had been gestating for years before it finally made its way to the screen; it was the writer's passion project, something he'd built and dissected from every angle in his mind before actually putting any words on the page. There's no real measure of the time he put in previously, and so to develop a new season right could take him through to the end of the decade. That's not really going to help HBO and ensures interest will have only waned more.